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P. S. CLINGER.

Combined Fodder Cutter and Corn Sheller.

Patented Aug. 14, 1860.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIQ.

P. S. GLINGER, OF CONESTOGA CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING FODDER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,572, dated August 14:, 1860.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, P. S. CLINGER, of Conestoga Center, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Machine for Cutting and Crushing Cornstalks and the Like for Fodder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1, is a view of the machine, ready for cutting and crushing corn-stalks into fodder; supported on its frame F, Y, the ends A and front 13, being closed up, the sliding table D, is drawn out to show the knives and cutter bar, as also the binding rod with its screw end and bur r, r, in the cap C. Fig. 2, shows the convertible bar K, M, enlarged with its beveled grooved side K, up, and one of the vise-j awed knifeholders I, with its knife H in the groove L.

Fig. 3, shows one of the semicircular knives- H, with its adjustment slot for the set screw in the chair I or vise-jawed holder. Fig. at is a side view of the same in place, and binding screw I, to fix the base of the chair I, firmly in the dove-tailed or beveled groove L, of the bar K, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows the three spiked concaves, attached to the inside of the frame F in a line with the cylinder (E, Fig. 1).

G, are two of the long screw-spikes, inserted into the cylinder E, in a line with the cutting edge of the knives H, to secure a clean out. These screw spikes with their projecting square heads may also be made with a slit in the same, as shown by G Fig. 5, in which the knives pass through, thus arresting the stalk on both sides, to secure a clean out. These spikes pass between the concaves IV, which latter may be cast on a bar or separately fixed as aforesaid.

To describe Fig. 1 more fully, I would state that the advantages of the sliding table D, with its binding rod 9, 1, are important in cutting corn fodderfirst it covers and protects the knives, and also prevents accident to the hands while feeding, it keeps the dust and fragments down, with space heneath to blow out; it can be adjusted to tough or green fodder by narrowing the throat, or widened when cutting dry fodder, and retained at any adjustment, by the screw on the rod 7, r. The spikes G, and the teeth on the cylinder E, seize and retain the cut stalks, and effectually prevent their rising up endwise, as they can not turn out because of the table above the cutter bar, and must therefore go through the crushing process between the teeth on the cylinder and concaves IN.

The knives can be adjusted as worn by means of the slot and screw, and after one side is completely worn out, the knife or knives may be turned around and be as good as new.

The chairs I, sliding in the groove L, of the bar can be set to the greatest exactness for cutting close to the screwed spikes G, in the cylinder E, thus presenting many desirable features, making this machine peculiarly advantageous for a corn fodder cutter.

I do not claim the spiked revolving cylinder, E, concaves F, and gearing attached to drive the same.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the bar K, L sliding chairs I with their slotted, semicircular P. s. GLINGER.

l/Vitnesses S. G. MUSSER,

JACOB STAUFFER. 

